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For 4,423 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 58% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 37% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.8 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 75
Highest review score: 100 Dead Man's Pop [Box Set]
Lowest review score: 10 Wake Up!
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,769 out of 4423
  2. Mixed: 623 out of 4423
  3. Negative: 31 out of 4423
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Medicine at Midnight
    Celebratory to the bone, the tenth Foo Fighters recording adventure is a bit like finding yourself on the best rollercoaster ride in town on a hot summer day, joyously terrifying in places, it ends well. Quite frankly, at this point in time, there is a strong need to connect with moments of such enjoyable intensity.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Vapor City
    There’s no denying the worth of the latter sort, but the electrifying nature of the first cut comes as a bit of a tease, setting you up for a (albeit nicely ambient) fall.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mylo Xyloto
    Coldplay's electronic excursions may be more cerebral and less embroiled than those of Thom Yorke's continued influence on Radiohead, but their progress is to be applauded, for this is an excellent album with depths unexplainable within this word count.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Californian Soil
    A record of sheer beauty and one that finds London Grammar at the absolute top of their game.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Postcards From a Young Man
    There will be plenty of people who opt to be snobby about the fact that this record is so commercial, so polished and so brazen, but those people are all, to a man, idiots. If you can't love these songs, you are incapable of experiencing joy itself.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Isn't It Now?
    A distinctive, nigh-on unique listen, ‘Isn’t It Now?’ is a fine experimental broth for Autumn listens.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Brief Crack of Light
    Therapy? have always exuded a commercial undercurrent and it's that ingredient that makes them compelling - equally now as then.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pure Luxury
    The album might be inspired by grey and harsh reality, but it doesn’t go the obvious route with slow-burn and somber-toned tracks. Instead, ‘Pure Luxury’ still remains anthemic and rave-worthy with its vibrant rhythms—the tracks just happen to have deep lyrics.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Everything Still Worries Me
    It is a coming-of-age record that evidences Abbie’s musical and personal growth and announces her as one of the country’s most exciting new indie pop songwriters.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Take Me to the Land of Hell
    Bonkers in parts it may be, but Take Me proves hugely enjoyable.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jardín
    Jardin is also no departure from Garzón-Montano’s first release, 2014’s EP ‘Bishouné: Alma del Huila’, but rather a continuation of theme and sound. Perhaps it is his self-imposed musical exile which has created a sound that some listeners may find repetitive whilst others meaningful in its persistence.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Say Yes
    This carefully constructed and cohesive record really is a big deal.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    God First
    Both immediately hook-filled and intellectually deep at the same time, God First has already earned its place as one of the most exciting and unexpected releases of 2017.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Inheritors
    This is the music of ritual, an electronic folk chimera of primordial pagan beats, ancient and timeless yet psychedelically futurist.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Imagin
    Dark Sky, three shape-shifting bass heads from London, have turned in a belter of a debut album.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mutator
    ‘Mutator’ is not an epitaph or vault-scraping footnote; it is a painful reminder that New York lost one of its important critical voices when Vega passed away in 2016.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Butterfly 3000
    Oddly, ‘Butterfly 3000’ shines brightest not through its movement but its precise arrangements. ... On those occasions where King Gizzard fully embraces the groove, however, ‘Butterfly 3000’ is a real treat.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Don't Let the Ink Dry
    Eve Owen has only just started her journey, but there’s clearly a bright future ahead for the artist as her mature and accomplished album proves she’s indie music’s rising star.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Next Day
    This is a contemplative, confident record which will only strengthen with further listening.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Happier than Ever
    Patiently moving into a new era, ‘Happier Than Ever’ is shrouded in a transformative darkness.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Latin
    Still in place is their frenetic rushes of sonic trickery, but most notably the band have relaxed a little and even got a little funky.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    In Love
    It’s exceptional stuff.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Fever Dream
    Bold, uncompromising and totally EE, A Fever Dream further cements the idea that the Manchester outfit will one day be considered as one of art-pop’s true greats.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Marauder
    Raw but refined, familiar but resolutely strange, Marauder seizes that fine balance of retaining the old while introducing the new; the sound of a band at ease with themselves, it could well be Interpol’s finest album in a decade.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Songs of Surrender
    It’s a touching journey reflecting on how the four boys changed into men and changed the world through the power of music at the same time.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Devil's Walk
    A record for late, empty, lonely nights.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Classic Objects
    ‘Year of Love’ opens the record with a palm-muted guitar riff, unexpectedly, and from there ‘Classic Objects’ blossoms into classic Jenny Hval, ‘Cemetery of Splendour’ and ‘Jupiter’ forming its plain, heavenly, skyscraping highlights.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hollandaze
    A blindingly good debut.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    MTV Unplugged [Live at Hull City Hall]
    It’s compact, elegant and striking.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A+E
    What one quickly realises is that this is an accomplished record.
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